Wiktionary:Dialects

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Dialects are regional or historic (temporal) varieties of individual languages.

See Wiktionary:Languages and Wiktionary:Families for discussions of languages and of language families, respectively.

Dialectal senses, spellings, forms etc

Wiktionary uses {{label}} to label as dialectal:

1. alternative spellings:
   1. (UK) colour
   2. (US) color
2. words:
   1. (UK) anorak
3. inflected forms:
   1. (UK and African-American Vernacular) learnt
   2. (US) learned

Wiktionary uses {{a}} (which stands for "accent") to label pronunciations as dialectal:

1. (US) IPA^(key): /sɝ/
2. (UK) IPA^(key): /sɜː/

Dialects in etymologies

Wiktionary uses a small number of exceptional codes to represent specific varieties of languages in etymology sections, while not having full entries in those languages. Some may be deprecated. These codes are stored in Module:etymology languages/data.

See also

• Wiktionary:Languages, Wiktionary:Families, Wiktionary:Scripts